The air within the shattered hollow vibrated with the shrill, razor-edged hum of Juna's twin celestial authorities converging in terrifying harmony.
Across the gouged clearing, the eight-shard rabbit hybrid hissed venomously, her long ears swiveling to track the high-frequency vibration of the approaching glaive.
Every sinew along the corrupted beast's hind legs coiled tight, preparing to slip into the predictable trajectory of Juna's sweeping arc.
"You swing wide and clumsy like a butcher, little wolf!" the rabbit-woman sneered through foaming fangs, her spiked bone daggers trembling with virulent purple toxin.
"Your shiny toy cannot catch an apex subterranean burrower... not in this lifetime!" the monster mocked, baring her jagged teeth.
The foul stench of necrotic rot wafted from the beast's blackened claws, withering the grass beneath her feet with every skittering step.
